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The place of the ideal observer in medical ethics

Social Science and Medicine, 1983
The idea of an ideal observer is frequently employed in ethical reasoning and has recently been introduced into medical ethics. The contemporary use of this idea, however, is deeply flawed. It ignores important social and personal dimensions of ethics.
Larry R Churchill
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Recovery as an Ethical Ideal

Substance Use & Misuse, 2008
The paper explores the varied implications of cure, healing, and recovery and considers why recovery is often the preferred characterization in relation to a medicalized drug dependency. The positive as well as the negative dimensions of recovery are noted; the ethical challenges of the primarily processual associations of recovery are investigated ...
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Health and salvation as the ethical ideal

Journal of Religion & Health, 1981
Health and salvation are related terms, because each seeks the well-being of the whole person. When placed within the Judeo-Christian context, health as salvation can be defined as the highest good for the total human community. This good is denied to humanity through the unequal use of the world's resources, a fact underscored by the current energy ...
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Liberation Ethics and Idealism

New Blackfriars, 1984
Liberation theologies provide a framework for serious reflection about systemic issues. But some liberation theologians, while urging social change, foster a guilt-inducing process which actually prevents both personal and social change. The tendency to moralize individual life is thus simply transposed into moralizing and collective issues.
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Is caring the ethical ideal?

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1996
This paper will examine the claim that caring is an appropriate ethical ideal for nursing. Initially it will examine nursing's philosophy of care and caring, highlighting some areas of difficulty and dissatisfaction articulated by many of its contemporary theorists Evaluation of the notion of caring as an appropriate ethical ideal for nursing will be ...
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Zarathustra and the Ethical Ideal

1991
This work defines its course in reference to Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra. The author uses Zarathustra to reflect how our understanding is wedded to affective modes, thematizing especially laughter, fear, awe and hope. The book invites us to rethink how to overcome some relevant impasses of contemporary analytic, hermeneutic and (post ...
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Idealism and Ethical Citizenship

2014
‘Ethical citizenship’ is a puzzle. An ethical citizen should be someone who accepts responsibilities and duties and acts accordingly. How is that possible amidst forces that are global and economies from which individuals and whole groups can be excluded? Good intentions and sound preparation may be of no avail. The identification of responsibility may
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Physicians' Ethics: Keeping Sight Of The Ideal

Health Affairs, 1987
Publishing at its best can be a lively dialogue between a journal's authors and readers. We encourage your responses to what you will be reading in future issues of Health Affairs.
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Ethics after Idealism

1998
Explores the issue of cultural otherness in fiction, film, and other forms.
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The Protestant Ethic and the Analytic Ideal

Political Psychology, 1983
Weber's conceptualization of the Protestant ethic has played a significant role in modern social and economic thought. However, a flaw, which he himself had noted, is that he was putting forth a psychological argument when psychology was not yet adequately developed. A striking omission is the release of hatred and violence engendered by the Protestant
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